Reading and laziness

I am an extremely avid reader and I often sacrifice my health and sleep for
the sake of reading. The last few months have been especially good from the
reading perspective and I have polished off whole sets of books, not
counting all the wikipedia reading that I have been up to.
But now I am beginning to suspect something - I suspect that reading for me
is like television. I read as a consumer of information, not as a
processor. So, it turns out, reading is popcorn for my mind! And I suspect
it is the same for many other avid readers.
And this is bad news because it means reading stops me from doing more
useful things and I end up with a mind full of trivia that impresses
everyone who has a conversation with me but does not translate into anything
worthwhile.
Yikes! My life as I know it is going down the toilet!